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I dont know what to think anymore
Dears,
I am approaching you here because I am super worried with the following situation:
Last saturday I went shopping and when I arrived at home while unpacking the groceries, I found wet blood inside the groceries bag. I noticed that the inside and outside of the bag with the chicken I bought was somehow wet with blood and a few other products as well. My husband claims that the blood was coming from the chicken however I am struggling to accept. I was the one unpacking the full bag, so I got fresh blood on my hands and of course in the shelves where I placed the food.
I am very concern with HIV since I am 39 weeks pregnant in the case the blood was not from the chicken but from someone else. I washed my hands several times and some places in my kitchen as well, however my husband didnt let me send the groceries to the garbage since he believes I am overreacting and for him there is no way the blood would not be from the meat.
4 days have passed and I continue to wash my hands everytime I touch something in the kitchen. On top, in the evening I had troubles taking out my contact lenses and touched a lot my eye.
Can you help me assess this? In the possibility of being contaminated blood should I speak with my doctor? Is my baby at risk?
Thank you very much for your support and reassurance.
I am approaching you here because I am super worried with the following situation:
Last saturday I went shopping and when I arrived at home while unpacking the groceries, I found wet blood inside the groceries bag. I noticed that the inside and outside of the bag with the chicken I bought was somehow wet with blood and a few other products as well. My husband claims that the blood was coming from the chicken however I am struggling to accept. I was the one unpacking the full bag, so I got fresh blood on my hands and of course in the shelves where I placed the food.
I am very concern with HIV since I am 39 weeks pregnant in the case the blood was not from the chicken but from someone else. I washed my hands several times and some places in my kitchen as well, however my husband didnt let me send the groceries to the garbage since he believes I am overreacting and for him there is no way the blood would not be from the meat.
4 days have passed and I continue to wash my hands everytime I touch something in the kitchen. On top, in the evening I had troubles taking out my contact lenses and touched a lot my eye.
Can you help me assess this? In the possibility of being contaminated blood should I speak with my doctor? Is my baby at risk?
Thank you very much for your support and reassurance.
You had no risk of HIV because you can't get HIV from touching it. You are so safe that you don't need to test. There is nothing to be anxious about.
HIV is instantly inactivated in air which means it is effectively dead so it can't infect from touching it. It doesn't matter if you and another person with HIV were actively bleeding or had cuts at the time either because the HIV is effectively dead. You just touched some animal blood which isn't even in the league with rubbing open wounds together so you are fine. There is no reason to keep trying to wash off dead HIV virus, or to even wash it once. there are meat diseases you can get like salmonella so take care against that risk though.
Only non-sex risks are \sharing needles that you inject with but you didn't do that so you had no risk. This sentence is all you need to know to protect yourself against HIV.
Even with blood, lactation cuts, rashes, burns etc air or saliva does not allow inactivated virus to infect from oral activities. The above HIV science is 40 years old and very well established so nothing you can add will make your situation a risk.
Lucky for you the husband saved the chicken.
HIV is instantly inactivated in air which means it is effectively dead so it can't infect from touching it. It doesn't matter if you and another person with HIV were actively bleeding or had cuts at the time either because the HIV is effectively dead. You just touched some animal blood which isn't even in the league with rubbing open wounds together so you are fine. There is no reason to keep trying to wash off dead HIV virus, or to even wash it once. there are meat diseases you can get like salmonella so take care against that risk though.
Only non-sex risks are \sharing needles that you inject with but you didn't do that so you had no risk. This sentence is all you need to know to protect yourself against HIV.
Even with blood, lactation cuts, rashes, burns etc air or saliva does not allow inactivated virus to infect from oral activities. The above HIV science is 40 years old and very well established so nothing you can add will make your situation a risk.
Lucky for you the husband saved the chicken.
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Thank you AnxiousNoMore. Reading your comment I even tend to think that my initial one was ridiculous ... my husband in fact cooked the chicken and made me eat it with him. And believe me .... I tried to get rid of it! :)
Great. Maybe you could go out and buy some more chicken and enjoy it with him this time.
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As an adult, the only risks for HIV are:
1) having unprotected, penetrative vaginal or anal sex, or
2) sharing IV drug needles with other IV drug users.
If you don't do either of those activities, you will NEVER have to worry about HIV.
No one has ever contracted HIV from touching blood, even if they have sores, cuts or scrapes on their skin. Put this out of your mind - it isn't possible to get HIV this way.
1) having unprotected, penetrative vaginal or anal sex, or
2) sharing IV drug needles with other IV drug users.
If you don't do either of those activities, you will NEVER have to worry about HIV.
No one has ever contracted HIV from touching blood, even if they have sores, cuts or scrapes on their skin. Put this out of your mind - it isn't possible to get HIV this way.
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Thank you for your comment CurfewX. I dont know what is going on with me but since I got pregnant it seems I lost it !! I just hope I would not be like that with my little baby :(
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